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To: <1/1,000,000th%
I am not a physicist by any stretch, but doesnt everything have a Schwartzfield radius?

As in, compress a tennis ball to the space of its schwartzfield radius and it would become a black hole?

116 posted on 03/24/2006 11:51:32 AM PST by RightWingNilla
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To: RightWingNilla
Sorry, Schawrtzchild. Ironic, doesnt that mean "Black Shield" in German?
117 posted on 03/24/2006 11:52:52 AM PST by RightWingNilla
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To: RightWingNilla

No. There is a certain minimum amount of mass required to distort space enough for light to be trapped.

If you squashed a tennis ball to the size of an atom, there still wouldn't be enough mass.

For example, our sun is too small to become a black hole.


118 posted on 03/24/2006 11:58:16 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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